US Patent Issued to The University of Liverpool on Feb. 4 for "Porous organic cages for quantum sieving" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,314, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to The University of Liverpool (Liverpool, Great Britain).

"Porous organic cages for quantum sieving" was invented by Andrew I. Cooper (Liverpool, Great Britain), Ming Liu (Liverpool, Great Britain), Marc A. Little (Liverpool, Great Britain) and Linjiang Chen (Liverpool, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of preferentially sorbing, from a target mixture, one or more target substance(s) over one or more non-target substance(s). In particular, porous organic cages (POCs) may be deployed in the quantum sieving of mixtures of hydrogen isotopes to select...